Eccentric Renaissance - Barber, Charles
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Eccentric Renaissance shows how El Greco and two other sixteenth-century Cretan artists, Michael Damaskenos and Georgios Klontzas, actively engaged in a re-casting of the Byzantine tradition of icon painting on the Venetian colony of Crete. In so doing, they created art that articulated a point of view that was shaped outside of and against the hegemonic world of Vasari's account of art history. Building upon their own tradition, they developed a highly original understanding of the icon and explored its power to reconcile Byzantine and Renaissance styles of painting and provide a response to the growing presence of Islam.…mehr

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Eccentric Renaissance shows how El Greco and two other sixteenth-century Cretan artists, Michael Damaskenos and Georgios Klontzas, actively engaged in a re-casting of the Byzantine tradition of icon painting on the Venetian colony of Crete. In so doing, they created art that articulated a point of view that was shaped outside of and against the hegemonic world of Vasari's account of art history. Building upon their own tradition, they developed a highly original understanding of the icon and explored its power to reconcile Byzantine and Renaissance styles of painting and provide a response to the growing presence of Islam.
Autorenporträt
Charles Barber is Donald Drew Egbert Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Among his previous publications are Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm, Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, and, as coeditor with Stratis Papaioannou, Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics.